Returning to Australia after many years, Mary Lussiana sets out on an epic expedition to discover the diverse facets of a continent rich in natural beauty and cultural history

Photographer Feargus Cooney shares nearly two decades of learning how to thrive in the Scottish winter mountains, and the series of stunning, sometimes hard-won images that have resulted

Igloo-building, pine needle soup and some seriously high-stakes fire building – Anna Richards heads to the Swiss Jura mountains for a course on extreme cold survival

It’s a cold, clear February evening on Brighton beach. The sun has not yet dipped below the horizon and the last of the light is that strange, luminescent blue that presages dusk. Hundreds of pairs of

Home is what you make it – especially ...

Happy New (wildlife-watching) Year to all readers, says James Lowen